He's not turning out well at all. We didn't raise him this way, to be careless and
cold-hearted. He has become a vicious dog since we left, we, the ones who had promised to always be by his side. Now he's feeling alone and deceived; if we don't take action, we're going to lose him in this life too. I'm going to tame him again. You know you can't, it's still too early. No, I can. I don't have to be his dad again. God, please, send me next to my little Petru, I want to be close to him and keep him on your path. If I can't be human, make me his dog, Father.
(Translated by Cristina-Bianca Ion / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In May 2022, the group has 8,350 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
